The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-25
Gambling Stories.
From the Chicago hter-Ocean


''This is my forty seventl summer In Sarato.
ga" said Wilmington gentleman who had Just
lost S32 at roulette in the club land the tanest
in the lot for gamblers. Why, saw John Nor
rissey and Ben Wood play a faro game in '63 all
night Everybody else had gone The town
clock began to strike 6, and MoriSSey stopped
shutting the cards and counted. One, two, three
four five, six This is my last deal. Wood
looked up at him with tears in his eyes, although
he was SIZE, 900 ahead of the game, and asked:
John do you think it's fair to beat poor fellow
like me this way
1.-The next day came across MorriSsey on the
old United States piazza and asked him who the
greatest gambler in the world was Ben Wood,
he answered"
'Oh, yes" said Albert Spencer. that was
thirty years ago, but what would you think
now if you should see a man bet SAC, 00) on the
turn of a card in baccarRt? Frank Huntoon
did that not two months ago in New York at the
Carlton Club. Why, they play there for the
biggest stakes in the world. Yes. he beats them
all, and he's fine looking fellow, too; stands
six feet four inches, with muscles like an
athlete, bright blue eyes brown hair, and the
graces of q Chesterfield. But you should see
him on a lark! Ny, but he makes things move.
He fills the pockets of his overcoat with silver,
and throws il broadcast like farmer sowing
his grain. | saw him one night in Roster &
Balls, on Twenty-third street, treat 500 fellows
TO champagne, and the next day he told me
that after paying for 200 bottles he received
another bill for los, said to have been opened
the same night. I've seen him yield to Bacchus,
and throw his money at the walters as though
it were corn and they Chickens,
When asked about European gambling, Spen-
Ger said
"Oh, have seen every type. But there goes
gentleman" pointing to eX-Sheriff O'Brien of
New York, whose brother Larry broke the
bank at Baden Baden twice in one evening. In
1873, the last year gambling was allowed in Ger
many, Baden Baden was as full of people as
Saratoga is now. Larry was good chap; big
hearted and brave ready to give the last cent to
any one who needed il more than he. A child
could lead him. but a bully or fighter found him
a demon to deal with When saw him at the
German Spa he may have been %, but looked
Z. / shall never forget the look VI. Blanck
gave him when he was pointed out as the
American who wanted to play an unlimited
game against the bank. The sum the bank put
up was S20,0 with SlC0 the limit. O'Biien
told Gen. Van Aens son. now living at New
port, that he wanted to bet without limit and
10 tell the French fellow 50. Van Allen explained
the case and presented Larry. The game com
menced. and in half an hour OBrien broke the
bank, his bets being 5000 each Larry rolled
the $4,000 winnings into his pocket, and for all
of fifteen minutes the proprietor sat staring at
him At the end of that time another $4,000
bank was announced by the dealer, and at il
Larry bucked. IL succumbed TO his luck in less
time than the first had been won. NJ Blanch
was dumbfounded, and when he emphatically
refused to open another unlimited game the big
crowd left the house, and for many days Larry
was the lion of the town, as no such luck had
been known since Russian, years before, had
broke up the place"